Communicate!

Sommer 2009 (50)

Freelance interpreting: Career move or temporary fix for hard times? Gateway to participation in the major debates of our age or a permanent seat on the sidelines? Dream or nightmare? Right for you or not?

I've never been through psychoanalysis and after recently attending a workshop in the interests of our new project on interpreters in conflict areas, I'm not sure I ever want to. All day I felt like a laboratory mouse.

Why do interpreters join AIIC? What misgivings may they have about it? What do they expect from their professional association? An assembly is a good place to single out new members and ask them these and related questions.